Digigirlz Camp
Guest post by Lynn Langit of Contagious Curiosity
We had a rocking good time hosting a bunch of SoCal DigiGirlz at the Microsoft Irvine, CA offices over the last two days. There we held our first-ever technology camp around the two themes – hands-on experience with visual programming environments (like PopFly, MSRobotics and StoryTelling Alice); and technology career information (from women computer science majors, entrepreneurs [Alexandra from GirlGamer.com] and technology professionals). Pictured below are just some of the people who made the camp happen – from left to right, Microsoft Developer Evangelist, USC graduate and MS Robotics expert, Lindsay Rutter; Logistics guru and volunteer coordinator, Brittanie Ngo; me; design professional, technical instructor and PopFly Game creator instructor, Gina Johnston; and freelance .NET developer, database instructor Kim Schmidt. Not pictured is our favorite international developer, Cigdem Patlak, who, among many other things, got her former female developer colleagues in Instanbul and some of Microsoft’s product team (from the Expression’s team) in Redmond to send welcome pictures to our local DigiGirlz. We made a little video about this, check it out at the bottom of this post.
We used a Windows Live Space to record information about our event and I will upload all of the classfiles (power point slides) to the associated SkyDrive, so you can grab those files if you’d like. Here’s the URL: http://digigirlz.spaces.live.com/
Hit the jump to read the rest and a MS Surface video.
In addition to all the cool classes and information, we were so proud to be able to show the girls the brand new MS Surface that we just received into our Irvine office last week. Thanks so much to our own Cindy Palmer for coming on the weekend before DigiGirlz to set up and test the MS Surface.
